Today's 10 Topics:
1. Working against the law, how to win? by AL Nantes (fr, it,
pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
2. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - Call of youth
organizations: El-Valls against Khomri, March 17, in the street!
(fr, it, pt) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
3. Chile, periodico-solidaridad N°32 - Neither men nor women:
steps towards a dissident revolution by Angie Hernandez* (ca)
[machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
4. Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Creating Anarchist
Collective of Grenoble (03/12/16) (fr, it, pt) [machine
translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
5. France, Anarchist Collective of Grenoble cag: Why fight?
(fr) [machine translation] (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
6. INTERNATIONAL WORKERS ASSOCIATION iwa-ait: March 18 General
Strike (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
7. Tour: Anarchism in Chile diversity and conflicts
presentation in Kafe Mara Munich 29.03.16 by two Chilean
anarchists (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
8. France, Alternative Libertaire AL - mobilization, 24, March
31 and after: a common digital platform to announce local
mobilisations (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
9. iwa-ait: Solidarity with the Puppeteers from Below: The
State is the Biggest Terrorist by Secretariat on Sat, 03/19/2016
(ca) (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
10. Callout - Bristol Anarchist Bookfair 2016 - Building an
Anarchist Future (a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
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Message: 1
Wednesday, March 9, anger against the labor law is passed from virtual to reality by
embodying the street. This first day of mobilization is an undeniable success, strength of
the relationship with the government is committed. But that day will not be enough to make
the bend. ---- What are the prospects of struggles? How to converge the mobilizations? How
to bend over? ---- Alternative Libertaire Nantes invites you to a cocktail-debate Tuesday,
March 15 at 19h at the Black Cat (13, allée Duguay Trouin, 44000 Nantes, tram: Commerce)
to discuss. ---- The opportunity to share our information, our feelings and discuss
avenues of work to make this nascent movement nightmare powerful 2016!
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-la-loi-Travail-comment
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Message: 2
After the success of the mobilization of March 9, the call of youth organizations to
mobilize on March 17 for the final withdrawal of the draft Labour Code anti-law. ---- More
than 500 000 people mobilized themselves over France on March 9 to demand the withdrawal
of the bill "Labour". Among manifestant.es, nearly 100,000 young étudiant.es, lycéen.ne.s
and young travailleu.se.rs, privé.es job descendu.es who are in the street with a
determination that will not stop to increase for better prospects for youth employment
chosen, stable quality and the maintenance of collective guarantees. ---- In line with
this strong mobilization, we urge all young people to a new day of action on March 17 to
demand the unconditional withdrawal of the draft law regressive, and wear our
loudly-against proposals to fight against tou.te.s unemployment and guarantee a right to a
secure future:
For apprenti.es and trainees: remuneration and rights to the height of the busy station.
No remuneration below the minimum wage and the same rights as other salarié.es including
social protection. The end of the age discrimination in the calculation of compensation
apprenti.es Learning should be legal only from 16 years and should lead to stable employment.
The provision of supplementary budgets to offer all young people an education with quality
training. Set up effective social protection during their studies with an income and count
the years of study in the calculation of pension and unemployment insurance.
Ending poverty: CDI as employment standard, the distribution by the reduction of working
time without wage reduction among everyone to end unemployment and ensure adequate social
protection for all, as salarié.es unemployed.
For this, by organizing in schools, universities, neighborhoods and businesses, we call
tou.t.es youth to amplify the movement and to mobilize massively on March 17, and at
future dates, especially during the general day of action called by the Inter national on
31 March.
Signatories: Alternative Libertaire, CGT young DIDF, Together LDIFs precarious Generation,
JC, Young Environmentalists, JOC, house mates, MJS, MRJC, New Deal campus, NPA, Dare
feminism, PG, Solidaires students with,! SOS racism, the General Union of students, UEC, UNEF
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?Contre-Valls-El-Khomri-le-17-mars
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Message: 3
"I am saved by the waters and keep my dissenting legacy to the end of my days, and it may
be an alien and not reach the end of my days and is eternal." -- Hija de Perra (Daughter
Bitch) ---- Shortly before turning 17 years I began to identify myself as a transsexual.
As a woman who had mistakenly born in the body of a man. It was a difficult transition,
the city where I'm not much chance of finding information about these taboo subjects,
especially with the lack of material and financial resources suffering at that time. The
term transgender barely came to know at the end of my fifteen years, thanks to the
emergence of a trans woman in a gringo reality models. ---- Today, with more learning and
experiences I have reaffirmed my transgender identity, but I discovered a central aspect
about my gender identity at that time unknown. Transsexualism is only one side of
something larger called trans gender, which groups all transgendered identities (eg also
found intersex identities, agéneras and transvestites); and to be part of this is not
necessarily psychologically identify you with something different than what your genitals
or part of your biology dictate upon you. Being trans is to be an opposition. It is a
place in this alien to the laws of the binary male / female or female / male, breaking
with traditional beliefs that have been imposed by society world.
I'm trans and just by the fact of being, belong to one of the most discriminated and
abused minorities in this country. This discrimination extends beyond physical violence
and street insults, it also means not to be trans exercise our university degrees are
signed with our names by birth and not with whom we identify. This involves obtaining less
skilled jobs and denigrating economic conditions. According to one government study
involving transgendered women, none of the respondents belong to the media or upper strata
of society. We live in a society that not only exploits us and violent us but alienates us.
And how can you change this? First, a law of gender identity (LIG) appropriate, respecting
personal gender identification and not a legal or medical is the first step. In Chile it
is in the process of term the creation of a LIG, however, the commission generated to
create it is composed only of members from the right and a DC, making it inauspicious and
casts doubt on the effectiveness of the measure.
Second is education. Educate about what being trans in schools, universities, towns and
workplaces is essential to end the alienation experienced by our group, whose main social
obstacle is the generation of stereotypes such as prostitution, drug addiction or crime.
Finally, and most importantly, it is to receive the support of those who want to make this
a different society. Today the left, especially the revolutionary, has left out of their
work, their reflections and their ranks to the LGBTI community. No matter whether
intentionally or by default, without the support of the revolutionary left a gap between
the demands of the class and the needs of our community is generated. Against this
abandonment is the center-left and even the center-right of this country who spread the
banner of sexual dissent, limiting the demands to reformism and not to changes as
minorities really need. It is time to change course, but for this there must be a real
commitment from the militant left to form and especially to build in a struggle that
belongs to both men and women and trans alike.
Is the time to intensify the struggle for the transformation of this society, a struggle
that can not leave out anyone. Maybe then and only then, tomorrow no one be afraid to say
that it is neither woman nor man, but trans.
* Student of the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile.
http://www.periodico-solidaridad.cl/2016/03/15/ni-de-hombres-ni-de-mujeres-pasos-hacia-una-revolucion-disidente/
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Message: 4
The Anarchist Collective of Grenoble (CAG) is an association of revolutionary anarchists
recognizing the class struggle. ---- We seek the abolition of the state of
authoritarianism and exploitation of man by man, and strive to create a society of social
justice: libertarian communism. ---- We affirm that combat the various oppressions, both
in terms of origin, sex, sexuality, belief or non-belief etc. is part of the class
struggle. Indeed, there is an inter-sectoral nature of domination systems (self)
-alimentent and must be combated front and consistently. ---- We defend an analysis of
class society and we oppose any dogma that infléchirait. We struggle against all
institutions of power, whether religious, state or market, as the masses of alienation
tools, preventing operated es perceive their real interests in favor of divisions
exploited by politicians and dominant economic. We are working to build a world where the
power structures governing the thought will have no interest, and the beliefs are
everyone's business.
We oppose the inter-classist ideologies they national, ethnic or religious, erasing the
contradictions of interest between proletariat and bourgeoisie. We support the struggles
of anti-colonial and anti-imperialist liberation. If we understand the territorial
liberation strategy, we reject all forms of nationalism cependant-, since it only serves
to redefine divisions in the international proletariat and the whole idea of formation of
nation-state which simply places of new oppressive institutions of popular sovereignty
confiscation.
In its relentless pursuit of profit in the short-term, capitalism tends to turn the world
into a commodity by exploitation of natural resources and leads us to an unprecedented
environmental disaster. Overproduction and overconsumption, the commodification of life,
escape into technology and secure before allow the material destruction of autonomy. The
capitalists solutions offered today are the catastrophes of tomorrow. It is not possible
to end capitalism without a revolution emerging from the class conflict. Economic and
political ruling class must be reversed to achieve libertarian communism. We advocate
direct action to provide a favorable balance of force.
As anarchists we organize in all areas of life to advance the revolutionary process by
sharing our revolutionary thought. We know that the revolution can only be done by the
proletariat and that it was not confused with an organization whatsoever.
Our goal is to build an anti-authoritarian society, unrelated to domination and
exploitation, without any form of coercive power, a horizontally organized society,
self-managed, egalitarian and solidarity by and for self-es that constitute it. For this,
we must destroy all the roots of capitalism and private property. We say we want to
organize ourselves by free association and direct democracy where all decisions of social
organization will be taken by the general meetings. In order to perform certain tasks,
mandates may be established, provided that they are accurate, revocable at any time, and
controlled by the assembly on the basis of information provided in advance by the mandated.
Anarchist Collective Grenoble
Contact: cag@riseup.net
You can meet members of the Collective during meetings of anarchist social Library every
Thursday at 102 rue d'Alembert 17h-19h.
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Message: 5
FIGHT WHY? ---- In the society in which we are, under the aegis of capital, anarchists can
not defend the right to work because it is synonymous with alienation, oppression and wage
slavery both for workers and for unemployed workers. However the working people find
themselves forced to defend the scraps of social rights and that they ripped the state and
the bosses to fight, courage and determination, failing to see private again at any time,
as long as capitalism and the state that supports the last. ---- Therefore, we, members of
the Anarchist Collective of Grenoble, are now in the streets to demand the withdrawal of
the law El Khomri that size in the thick of the labor code, which gives more power to
businesses and those who run them - as if they do not have enough! - Which reduces the
salaried by denying such access to an acceptable compensation for unfair dismissal, and
ultimately prevents regulation by a legislative counterweight to the increasing
stranglehold of companies on our lives. Through it, it's the system that's set up that we
denounce.
We only have to make this precarious society that increasingly impoverished, our lives and
divides us away from others as much as ourselves, who finally focus what remains of
resources and wealth in the hands of a few: the ruling class, bourgeois.
This fight should be a starting point for social revolution and libertarian. A revolution
based on self-management and the disappearance of the state. Therefore conceive together
without authoritarianism, a balance of power, that of class struggle. For by the general
strike, the occupation, the reappropriation of our places of work and life in the streets
that we will win.
LEARNING COLLECTIVE STRUGGLE WE CAN EXPERIENCE IS THE STRENGTH TO EMERGE AND OTHER SOCIAL
ORGANISATIONS OF FORMS.
The tools of our emancipation already exist:
- Sovereign General Assembly
- Mandates imperatives and revocable
- Right to speak to each and every one.
We have the knowledge, tools in us to free ourselves from this iniquitous system and those
who govern us, then it is time to leave behind the old structures and old fears that
paralyze us and anchor again in inaction, to build a fraternal and supportive society to
the welfare of the benefit of all. The future is not determined by anything other than our
projects, our practices and our action.
Engaging people! WE ORGANIZE!
Anarchist Collective Grenoble
Mail: cag@riseup.net
information list CAG: https://lists.riseup.net/www/info/cag
You can meet with the group during meetings of the Social Anarchist Library every Thursday
at 102 rue d'Alembert from 17h to 19h.
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Message: 6
On March 18, our ltalian section, USl-AlT, along with CUB and SI Cobas will hold a general
strike for one day, with national demonstrations in Milan and Naples. The strike protests:
---- *Against the war and any military intervention of Italy, in Libya or anywhere else;
---- * Against the Jobs Act, which frees dismissals and fosters precariousness among
workers; ---- * Against agreements and laws limiting the freedom of trade union
association, granting a monopoly to trade unions acknowledged by bosses and the
government, against restrictions to the right to strike; ---- * Against separation into
company and individual contracts, for national collective bargaining; ---- * For wage
increases and decent wages for the unemployed and precarious workers; ---- * Against
unemployment, for a reduction in working hours with no wage loss;
* For the free circulation of people and equal rights to immigrants.
The strike is also called:
*against the counter-reform of education, which takes resources away from public schools
to give them to private ones, and offers bosses students’ free labour;
* for the right to a home against evictions, for the assignment of vacant council and
private houses to the homeless;
* against the profit rationale which produces pollution and environmental devastation.
The 18 March strike is a first step towards the unification of struggles, now isolated
within single sectors and companies, for the formation of a common class front in defence
of workers against the internal and external war waged by bosses and the government.
http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/march-18-general-strike
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Message: 7
Even though it might appear as a juvenile and in the context of a traditional left
hegemonized by Marxism also somewhat exotic, Anarchism – and its diversity – has a rich
history inside of the social movements in the Chilean region. It shistory goes back to the
last decades of the 19th century and reaches they days we are living now. In this
presentation we would like to synthesize its historical development und present its
different currents and problems nowadays. ---- Depending on your interests, we could focus
more on anarchism and the (ecological) land struggles as well as on feminist issues,
including a historical overview, a focus on indigenous and rural women as well as on
current feminist movements.
https://lavamuc.noblogs.org/
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Message: 8
Since March 9, internet initiatives taken on social networks and via digital mapping to
assist in the mobilization. While it is important to use these tools in Outlook 24 and
March 31, it does not replace the initiatives in real life to convince, mobilize and act.
---- The mobilization of March 9 was born of the encounter between a willingness bases of
unions to act despite national inter-union statements on the one hand and on the other
emulation especially via the internet within the population and society civil. If
certain.es were wary of the real "clicodrôme" events on social networks and online
petition , and if they did not replace the efforts "in real life" to mobilize, it is
undeniable that they helped.
These tools will be needed to read also: An event on social networks is like March 9 to
channel and coordinate initiatives , including mobilizations coming on 24 and 31 March.
Launched by militant.es, the event allows us to reach wide. it is accompanied by a map.
group on a digital map initiatives
For March 9, the U web team had set up a digital map, while at the same time of motivé.es
launched similar initiatives on the internet.
For the rest, we decided relayed the work launched by the militant.es that identify
initiatives to avoid duplication. But for such a tool is completed and is most effective,
they need help to its actualization.
To add the information on the card, it is necessary to contact the administrators of the
event via social networks: contact them via your profile with a private message, stating
the place, date, time of the event in your city or surrounding towns, and join if possible
the event link on social networks.
Scope and limitations of internet tools
If these web initiatives actually allow to affect hundreds of thousands of people, the
fact remains that millions of others remain convinced, a significant portion will be
behind a screen.
Also, along with the use of this type of tool for disseminating information, leaflets and
posters are classics news to make visible the movement and claims on the walls, in boxes,
as well as word of mouth and palaver "in real life" to convince hundreds of thousands more
people to do to strike, demonstrate, decide to act.
Alternative Libertaire produce posters, stickers and leaflets in this perspective, they
are put online on our website , and can be freely download and print, or order through our
online store.
http://www.alternativelibertaire.org/?24-31-mars-et-apres-une-plateforme
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Message: 9
March 21 is World Puppetry Day and on this occasion we would like to remind the world of
the situation faced by our comrades, Alfonso and Raul from Puppets from Below. At the
beginning of February, the puppeteers from Granada were invited to Madrid carnival
celebrations by the muncipality to present their show, The Witch and Don Cristobal. During
the performance they were arrested and face up to 7 years in prison. ---- The puppet show
itself was a political commentary on the state practice of framing politcal activists and
other serious problems of attacks on freedom and abuse of power. As part of the plot, the
police attack the heroine of the story and plants a placard in her premises which serves
as the basis for branding her a terrorist. This scene was used to accuse the puppeteers of
“glorifying terrorism” and “incitement of hatred”.
For all who know the show and the puppeteers, it is clear that this was an example of
critical theatre. It is a gross example of state encroachment on conscience and freedom to
try and criminalize people for their political thought.
It may well be that the event organizers in Madrid had no idea what they were sponsoring –
but who's fault is that? The puppeteers warned that there may be content inappropriate for
children, but parents paid no attention, deciding to denounce them to the police instead.
Much can be said about the show, but one thing is clear: this was not any glorification of
terrorism or incitement. Such charges are simply characteristic of the very problems that
the puppeteers were denouncing. The abuses of the state have been stepped up in Spain
recently, where new laws have been introduced and we see increasing incidents of political
repression.
The lnternational Workers' Association send our solidarity to the puppeteers and we demand
that all charges be dropped.
Around the world, we are all facing an increased attack against our freedom by the State,
Capital and Religion. The State acts above all to destroy any threats to its power, which
it uses to seal off borders and shut out refugees fleeing from war, misery and religious
fanaticism. Which it uses to facilitate Capital's exploitation of labour and the earth,
often using public funds to do so. Which is uses to protect private wealth of the elites.
Which it uses to wage war. Which it uses to spy and invigilate and limit various personal
freedoms. Which it uses to build up the power of the elites and usurp the rights of people
to decide for themselves.
The history of wars in the financial interests of elites show us how the state terrorizes
populations, murdering and destroying so that a few can profit. This is the greatest form
of terrorism of all.
When we look at the criminalization of social movements and dissent such as what is
happening today, we recognize the Spanish state as the one using actual terror – a threat
of locking up people who wrote a critical theatre work. This is done in a futile attempt
to strike fear into those who would be vocally critical. Futile because it is an outrage
that has already been met with a large public outcry.
As the attacks of the State are on the increase, we cannot retreat but must organize to
resist on a global level.
Freedom for the Puppeteers and Against State Terror!
We have a new world in our hearts – with no room for tyranny and exploitation!
lWA Secretariat
http://www.iwa-ait.org/content/solidarity-puppeteers-below-state-biggest-terrorist
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Message: 10
The 8th Bristol Anarchist Bookfair is on Saturday 30th April 2016, 11am to 6pm.
At Trinity Centre, Trinity Rd, Bristol BS2 0NW, with the Radical History Zone just 5
minutes down the road at Hydra Bookshop. ---- If capitalism collapsed tomorrow would we be
ready? It’s hard to plan for an uncertain future, as we don’t know how things will play
out. Nor is it realistic to think there will ever be a point where we will have reached
our destination or ideal utopia. ---- However, we can work on building our resilience &
solidarity & co-operation, experimenting with different ways of organising, exchanging
skills & resources, growing food & sustainability, dealing with conflict, and so on.
----The aim of this year’s Bookfair is to focus on the future…as capital’s global crisis
deepens and conflicts escalate, with disastrous consequences for humanity & the planet,
the need for lasting social revolution has never been greater…the future is bright IF the
future is anarchism!
The Bookfair is taking bookings for Stalls, and proposals for Workshops/Meetings, and the
deadline is 24 March - find full info and forms here
http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/2016-bookfair/
You can also follow us on Twitter - @bristolbookfair and #BABF2016 - plus we use a
Crackbook page - https://www.facebook.com/bristolanarchistbookfair
Do get in touch with any queries! We hope to see plenty of you on the 30 April, and we'll
have a crazy party after as usual!
In solidarity
Bristol anarchist bookfair collective 2016
Bristle
e-mail: bristolanarchistbookfair@riseup.net
Homepage: http://www.bristolanarchistbookfair.org/2016-bookfair/
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